On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Dave McGuire wrote:
  On 10/05/2012 11:20 PM, mc68010 wrote:
  Does anyone have a good place to buy the
conductive black foam for
 sticking IC into ? The prices I am getting off google are nuts. 
 Mouser carries it in big 3'x3' (or thereabouts) sheets.
 It's not cheap. (anywhere) 
Sometimes you can still find a good deal on smaller sections. I found a
supplier who had 12 sections of good quality conductive foam ~3.5"x4.75"
for $1.00 each a few years ago and I promptly bought out his stock. I
figure that will last me a long time since these days I mainly store ICs
in tubes and then put those inside foil/mylar antistatic bags. I've just
run across too many ruined NOS ICs with corroded pins from the conductive
foam breaking down.